Our family has had at least three players, starting in the 90's. We didn't buy many laserdiscs, although we do have the Terminator 2 Special Edition box, the Abyss box, and a few others like Lifeforce and some anime. Our first player required your to flip the disc over; subsequent players had an automatic side-change function, kind of like the auto-reverse function on audio cassette players. At least one player is still around.

When DVD encoding technology came on to the market, I wondered how much data you could get on a laserdisc using DVD encoding. Some years later, we have blu-ray that essentially does that, but at the same size as a DVD.

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"Many others since have tried & failed at making a watchable parasite slug movie" - LilCerberus

When I applied to film school in 1989, this guy came to the class to demonstrate laser discs. Instead of screening one, he threw the disc on the floor and jumped on it (both feet) to show us how strong it was.

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I used to say I live my life a quarter mile at a time and I think that's why we were brothers- because you did, too. No matter where you are, whether it's a quarter mile away or half way across the world. The most important thing in life will always be the people in this room. Salute mi familia. You'll always be with me... And you'll always be my brother.

I remember the family had one around 1982 or 1983. I remember some of the movies watched on it were Creepshow, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Rodan, The Groove Tube, and Student Bodies. Man, those discs were ginormous!

I have an RCA Laserdisc player hooked up to the home theatre. I have a ton of looney tunes discs that were given to me as a present. They work just fine. No plans on giving it up as I dig retro electronics.

My aunt and uncle had one in the mid 80s, when I was in my early teens. I remember going to the store with my uncle to rent movies for it a couple of times. (I used to like that store cuz I could sneak a look at the covers of the XXX laser discs while my uncle browsed... )

If memory serves the discs were the size of a vinyl LP, but heavier, which made them awkward to handle.

My aunt and uncle had one in the mid 80s, when I was in my early teens. I remember going to the store with my uncle to rent movies for it a couple of times. (I used to like that store cuz I could sneak a look at the covers of the XXX laser discs while my uncle browsed... )

Ahhh, that reminds me! I was on holiday in Hong Kong as a teenager, and was fascinated by the laserdisc covers of the tits and tentacles anime 'Legend of the Overfiend'. I never saw it until some years later, and it was everything I thought it would be, and more!

Now that I think of it, my first encounter with laserdiscs was probably in the 80's, when I watched the Scorpions 'World Wide Live' concert disc at someone's house. Memories!

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"Many others since have tried & failed at making a watchable parasite slug movie" - LilCerberus

I never had one. However, I did have a Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED) player. It was similar to a laser disc player except the movies were on discs that were sort of like vinyl record albums. I'm pretty sure my dad still has it and a bunch of movies. He won't get rid of anything.

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"Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just pretty much leave me the hell alone."

Never got one but I am curious. I've seen laser discs and the packaging looks awesome in itself for the movies. Would like to get one eventually just for the hell of it. They're bigger than vinyl's but look like cd's. The fast forwarding isn't that dvd stutter we have now, it's old school vhs fast forward.

I have 2 players which I bought recently. Have known about the technology for years but wasn't aware of its existence in the late 90's/early 2000's and even if I had, Laserdisc was so expensive and hard to come by back then that I don't think I would have gotten into it. I'm buying rare stuff now that isn't available on DVD or Blu-Ray because I do have the funds, the motivation and the accessibility.

Those were the older players that didn't have digital processing. You also couldn't pause a still frame with those older players on CLV discs (you would just get a blue screen). Both my players have digital processing so the fast forwarding/rewinding/freeze framing is much smoother, very similar to DVD/Blu-Ray which is much better IMO.